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t/- Thursday, March 12,-1931 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER EIGHT Washington High School News There has been an atmosphere of hard work and honest effort on the part of our pupils during the past week in trying to pass tests for the six weeks. The reports from members of the faculty go to prove that many have been faith ful to their duties while others so to speak have been “loafers” on the job. May those who made good records endeavor to keep their standard, while those who were found wanting will strive to im prove next time. Quite a few members of ,<our school have been on the sick-list recently and it is hoped thaf^all of them will soon be well agaif£ It was with regret that we heard of the misfortune that Mrs. Mayer had in spraning her ankle. She was just recovering from mumps end was hoping to return to school at an early date when she was so unfortunate as to receive a fall, which will confine her to the bed for a week. Her many friends ex tend their sympathy to her. A meeting of the P.-T. A. was held in the school auditorium on Thursday afternoon, March 5th. Mrs. Ryan, the president, presided and the following program was given: Subject—Juvenile Protection. Scripture—Mrs. Ryan. Talk—What are the protections the home provides for the child and how does sound pre school training protect the child through life?—Mrs. Middleton Rich. Talk—How does the church function in juvenile protection?— Mr. J. Warren. > Piano Solo—Joyce Bridges. Talk—Education as an agbncy for juvenile protection—how the school functions—Mr. Mayer. Vocal Solo—Miss Godbee. After the program, a short busi ness session was held. The secre tary read minutes of last meeting and called the roll, the commit tee chairmen made reports, and the president read the program for the April meeting, which will be as follows: Subject—Recreation. Devotional—Mrs. Fred Bass. Talk—^Physical Education in the School—Miss Annie Jackson. Talk—How Can The Parent- Teacher Association assist the school in the recreation program— Mrs. J. M. Bussey. Talk—The Relation of extra Curricula Activities to good Scholarship—Miss Marion Herron. Special Music—Miss Godbee. Easy to Grow Roses ... Sh rubs . We offer 110 varieties of rose bOsJies and climbing roses. Guaranteed healthy stock. Thousands of other plants. You can plant your grounds at low cost. Write TODAY for cata log, containing planting directions. FRUITLAND NURSERIES DESK V-l P. O. DRAWER 910 AUGUSTA, GA. SOUTH’S OLDEST NURSERY BUY SOUTH CAROLINA PRODUCTS Eat Mineral Fpod HELP Your HEALTH Wear Cotton Clothes BUILD UP Our STATE Patronize Home Enterprises The riches of our state will become the riches of our people, when we put "SOUTH CAROLINA FIRST” > v - This state-wide publicity program Is sponsored by South Carolina Natural Resources Commission and paid for by Liberty Life Insurance Company, Greenville, S. C. for the good of all business in our state •I For the time being we only have chapel in the auditorium on Mon day morning and the other morn ings a short devotional is conduct ed in each room. Mr. Mayer in chapel on last Monday gave a splendid talk on honesty, which was a great message to all the boys and girls. Much interest is also being shown during recess period every day Vhen thepupils take physical ex- Triey are learning many ercise. new games as well as developing % their bodies which is indirectly a means of developing their minds. Mrs. W. H. Ryan and Mrs. R. N. Edmunds were visitors on our cam pus last week. It was surely a pleasure to have these ladies with us and hope that they will come ain. We only wish that more of e parents would visit the school and to each one a warm and hearty welcome awaits you at any time that you can arrange to come. We were glad to have Mr. W. H. Garrison, Assistant State Vocation al Supervisor and Mr. E. B. Setzler, State High gchool Supervisor, pay us a visit one day last week. Miss Margaret McKinney spent last week end with her people in McCormick. Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt Wooten and daughter, Jean, have returned from a visit to relatives in Starr, S. C. Mr. L. V. M&yer, Mrs. Rountree, Misses Minnie Jackson and Annie Laurie Godbee attended the Coun ty Teachers’ meeting in Plum Branch last Saturday. A preliminary contest in English was held at the school building Saturday morning under the sup- prvision of Miss Jackson and Miss Herron. This was necessary as the first move toward the State Eng lish Contest and it is hoped that some of our pupils will be success ful in the district and then in the state. Ten pupils took this con test and they are too praised for their wonderful co-operation and desire to put their school on the map. Such spirit as was manifest in these pupils is what makes a school and is what makes worth while men and women. Those who took part were Viola Wilkie, Beryl Bass, Davis Bussey, Alice Buhch, Marie Gilchrist, Blanche' Middleton, Louise Cassels, Anel Edmunds, Eubert Eckard and Josephine Parks. The three best papers from this group will be sel ected and sent to the district sec retary. f, A most enjoyable affair of last week was a banquet given by the boys of The Future Palmetto Far mer’s Club In honor of their fa thers at the school building on Tuesday evening at 7:30 o’clock. Mr. W. H. Wooten, head of the Ag ricultural Department, arranged this event and planned an excel lent program. The first part of the evening was a jolly social hour when all those who were present gathered in ohe agriculture room, mixed and led with each other and had a good time in general. A delijious^ chicken stew was served and each person helped to prove that it was very “tasty” by eating heartily. Messrs. C. W. Robertson, Fred Bradshaw and Hubert Williams prepared this stew and they sure ly demonstrated their ability in the art of cooking. After the social hour a very interesting program was rendered. Davis Bussey, president of the club, gave a short speech of wel come to the “dads” and the visi tors. He said their presence ex pressed their interest and willing ness to co-operate with the boys and he very forcibly expressed the appreciation of his club. He also thanked the boys for the confid ence they had placed in him as making him president of their club and he plead with each mem ber to do his part, for he needed the support to carry out the work. Mr. J. H. Drennan in a response to this welcome, pledged the sup port of the fathers to the boys and to the school. He also stressed the importance of the agricultural department and urged the people to strive to improve it and to make it stronger than ever before. It was indeed a pleasure to have several out of town visitors to speak upon this occasion. Mr. E. L. Rogers, County Agent, gave a short but interesting talk on the topic of agriculture and its importance. Prof. Leon Andrea, Superintend ent of Edgefield High School, and Mr. J. Strom Thurmond, County Superintendent of Education of Edgefield County and a prominent young attorney of that city gave talks that were somewhat related. They plead with the boys to re main m their state and commun ity where they could show the value of agriculture even if they didn’t farm. There is a great need in the land today of men who un derstand the situation of the far mer and it is such men that should be sent to congress to make the laws and to become the rulers of our country. •Mr. W. H. Garrison, Assistant State Vocational Supervisor, of Co lumbia, showed by definite facts and figures the value of the Agri cultural department. He men tioned the increase in yield of crops, the saving of fertilizer, and many other important values. Mr. E. B. Setzler, State High School Supervisor, of Columbia stressed this department for the excellent development that it gave the boys. He also urged the fath ers to be especially interested in what their sons were trying to do and for the sons to always be teachable, to listen to and obey the wishes of their fathers, for a father’s pride is in his son. Two other home town visitors were heard from, the first one be ing- Mr. L. V. Mayer. He, as superintendent of the school wel comed the fathers and visitors. He expressed his interest in Washing ton School, in the boys, and in the people of the communities. He stated that the financial condition of the school was dependent on the farmers and that the import ance of his department could not then be overstressed. Mr. E. B. Dorn thanked the speakers for their forceful words and the way in which they had benefited the “dads” and sons by their presence. This meeting proved a great suc cess for it brought together the people of the different communi- es witn the out of town people ^vho were present. Each person left with a pleasant remembrance and wishing that such another evont would soon take place. Those present upon this occasion were: Messrs. D. C. Bussey, J. L. Bailey, E. B. Dorn, G. W. Bussey, W. McDaniel, C. W. Robertson, J. C. Maddox, W. T. Self, A. P. Willis, J. C. Wells, J. C. Stone, W. R. Gil christ, R. A. Price, R. A. Buchanan, A. C. Bradshaw, J. H. Drennan, E. L. Rogers, W. H. Garrison, E. B. Setzler, J. Strom Thurmond, Leon Andrea, L. V. Mayer, Fred Brad shaw, Hubert Williams and W. H. Wooten. The boys present were, Floyd Drennan, Tom Robert Wood, W. P. McDaniel, Middleton Self, Wilmer Parks, T. W. Savage, Jul ian Stone, Grover McDaniel, Jr., Herman Bussey, Albert Howie, El bert Dorn, John Price, Warlick Keller, Davis Bussey, Robert Gil christ, Pete Lankford, Hugh Mid dleton, Jack Wells, Robert Buch anan, Pat Robertson, Ray Maddox, Ray Bailey and Pickens Wells. The Junior 4-H club held its monthly meeting sometime ago with the president, Carolyn Dukes, in charge. The secretary, Mildred Blackwell, called the roll and read the minutes of the last meeting. Earle Parks gave an interesting reading, the title being “What Counts.” Mrs. Stallworth then took charge with the demonstra tion procedure. The subject of the lesson was, “Table Setting,” and much fup was had in setting a table with toy utensils. The members of the club did the work, while Mrs. Stallworth gave in structions and the meeting was very beneficial. Good Quality; High Yields Feature Cotton Contest CLEMSON COLLEGE, March 7.— The 603 contestants in the five- acre cotton contest averaged 508 pounds of one-inch lint per acre at a cost of $41.27, or 6.3 per pound, which lowers the 1929 pro duction cost by $8.12 per acre. These farmers averaged 35.3 per cent lint, produced 931 pounds of seed per acre, and cleared $22.16 profit per acre. Production cost per acre for the 1929 contest was $3.35 less than for 1928, according to R. W. Ham ilton, extension agronomist, who says that this reduced cost was ac counted for by the ditrerence in cost of picking 277 pounds less of seed cotton in 1929. It was sug gested that the cost of preparation planting and cultivation of cotton had become standardized but that this standardization of labor was upon a one-man basis. This lower production cost in 1930 is almost entirely accounted for again by the difference in cost of picking. In 1929 it costs $15.94 to pick the average yield of 1329 pounds of seed cotton at $1.20 per hundred; in 1930 it cost $7.19 to pick the average yield of 1329 pounds of seed cotton at 50 cents per hundred, or $8.75 less per acre. Production costs other than pick ing evidently increased somewhat in 1930. The extremely low price obtain ed for the seed and lint accounts for the low profits received by the 1930 contestants. tXt The average farm woman works eleven and one-half hours a day in winter and thirteen and one-half hours in summer, according to a home management demonstration at the University of New Hamp- ;)hire. THINGS WORTH KNOWING Water lily seeds were an import ant food in Egypt 4,000 years ago, and even today they are eaten by natives on the west coast of Africa. Of the half million villages in India, the majority are still un- 3onnected by railways or metalled roads and so are isolated during heavy rains. The sugar pine of the Pacific coast mountains is so called be cause it exudes from old wounds a sweet granular substance with a faint pine taste. Nearly fifty species of the ducks, geese and swans of North America have been bred in captivity. The only place in the United States where the trumpeter swan is now known to nest is in Yel lowstone National park. The human brain contains a cer tain amount of tin. Swans are slow to mate and re main mated permanently. Red, scarlet, orange, yellow, blue and green soluble dyes can be ob tained to color gasoline. United States railroads trans ported 500,000,000 pounds of ex plosives last year without any fat alities and with only small proper ty loss. The United States demand for newspaper reading uses up more newsprint paper than all the rest of the world’s newspapers combin ed. # S. C. WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW The following record of indus trial activity lists items showing n vestment of capital, employ ment of labor and business activ- ; ties and opportunities. Informa tion from which the paragraphs are prepared is from local papers, usually of towns mentioned, and may be comsidered generally cor rect. The National Museum has re ceived from China the skin of an Asiatic flying squirrel which meas ures thirty-nine inches from nose to tip of tail. An archaeologist says that the Egyptians wore sandals as far back as 3500 B. C., but footwear did not come into general use among them for 2,000 more years. Great quantities of skim milk are still wasted, even though dried skim milk can be successfully used in ice cream making. A sedan-style automobile which can travel on rails has been es pecially constructed for inspection trips over a Canadian railway line. The chief nut crops of the United States are walnuts and almonds from the Pacific coast, pecans from ithe Gulf states, and peanuts throughout the south. New York now has four air planes for its police patrol, which will watch out for law-breaking from the vantage point of the air. Experiments have shown, that seven species of mosquito may transmit yellow fever, rather than one species, as was originally sup posed. x Modem equipment helps to low er potato production costs. The old-time method of plowing the land with a pair of horses and a man-held 1-furrow walking plow is rapidly being supplanted by a trac tor-drawn plow that turns 2, 3 or more 12, 14, or 16 inch furrows and that is provided with sufficient tractive power to plow to a depth of 12 inches or more if desired. The same power can be supplied to a cutaway disk and harrow two or three times the width of the ordinary 2-horse implements. The use of 2, 3 and 4 row tractor- drawn planters, cultivators, and sprayers saves labor and lowers costs. The tractor is also gradual ly replacing the horse in hauling the elevator digger, as shown by the use of 2 and 3 row diggers. txt Mares in foal should be used at slow, light work—every day if pos sible. In summer, if they are not worked, turn into open pasture where they can get exercise, fresh air, and good feed. Protein and ash are needed for the development of the fetus, and the proportion of these in the feed should be grad ually increased during the gesta tion period. txt Plan to raise young pigs free from roundworms by following the system of swine sanitation develop ed by the U. S. Department of Ag riculture. Write to the Depart ment for Leaflet 5-L. It gives the details. Also avoid trouble with flies in summer by plowing under straw and manure. Sumter — Local post office build ing to be enlarged. Plans being made for construc tion of proposed bridge across Pee Dee and Waccamaw rivers from Georgetown to Alderly. Chesterfield — New cream sta tion opened here. Columbia .i— Opening services held for city’s modern and sani tary grocery and meat market. Easley — Auto Service Station moved to their new location in part of Crane Chevrolet building. Leicester — Bank of this city re opened for business. Easley — Frank Ellison recently started construction of filling sta tion on his lot on Main Street. Fairfax — Winnette Hat Shoppe opened for business. Walterboro — Moore’s Poultry Farm installed new 30,000-egg cap acity electric incubator in their new hatchery on Washington St. Grover — Paving of Lafayette Highway between St. George and Edisto River now under way at or near this place. Borden’s Milk Company planning construction of new plant in this State.—Bamberg Co., Tribune. Dillon — Hobeika Grocery being renovated and improved. Plans being considered for con struction of $1,300,000 Veterans home in this State.—Dillon Herald. Walterboro — State Highway No. 30 through this place opened to traffic. Sumter — Sumter Gas and Pow er Company opened for business in new quarters at 18 North Main Street. Hampton — Hampton Service Station sold to Owen Young. Columbia — Construction rapid ly nearing completion on new Hotel Columbia. An Urgent Invitation To School Patrons -x- To Get Rid Of Garlic The plowing of tillable land in late fall and again in early spring, immediately followed by the grow ing of a thoroughly cultivated row crop, will control wild garlic, a troublesome weed in small-grain fields and in pastures. This meth od usually must be followed for three years to clean up most of the garlic. Garlickly wheat produces garlic-tainted bread, and milk from cows that graze on garlic-infested pastures is tainted. Coal Operators Grow Timber Crop A Pennsylvania group of coal operators controlling 43,000 acres has planted 16,000 acres to forest „rees in the last few years, accord ing to Elwood Burgess of Windber, Pa., who spoke before a recent for estation conference at Mont Alto. Mr. Burgess, who manages the lands, reported the effort to prac tice continuous timber production in the older stands also. Two .email sawmills are operated. Marketing is given careful consideration, and hardwoods are being sold at a pro fit, the Forest Service is informed. X French toast is a breakfast or luncheon dish, sure to be popular with the family. Beat 2 eggs and add from one-half to three-fourths cup of milk, and a little salt. Cut well-baked, oven-text|ured, rather dry bread into uniform slices about one-fourth of an inch thick. Dip these into the egg mixture, until well penetrated, drain, and fry at once in butter or good-flavored fat in a heavy smooth skillet. Use mod erate heat and let the toast become golden brown before turning. Serve at -once with bacon or with sirup or some other sweet. txt The reason it is better for f child to learn to eat cereals an fruits without sugar is that man’ ;wcet foods spoil the appetite fo other foods that arc needed, an by adding sugar to everything : ,aste for sweet foods is needless! leveloped. Any candy or swee foods should be given sparingly a‘ he end of a meal. The faculties of both the gram mar and high school desire your presence Monday, March 16, from 3:30 to 4:30 to discuss the problems in which you are mostly interested, relative to the school and the chil dren. • All teachers will be at their respective class rooms. We are anxious to meet you and help you. XXt 1932 Looks Good For Poultrymen CLEMSON COLLEGE, March 7 — The number of baby chicks hatch ed in commercial hatcheries in 1931 will be materially less than in 1930 if the U. S. Bureau of Ag ricultural Economics’ report on hatchery operations in January may be used as a criterion of what may be expected to happen during the remainder of the season, says P. H. Gelding, extension poultrv- man, who thinks this means high er prices for poultry and poultry products. This report shows that 763 hatcheries, with a combined egg capacity of 54,000,000 eggs, set ap proximately 8,000,000 eggs in Jan uary, 1931, compared with 13,451,- 000 eggs on the same date last year a decrease of 40.5 per cent, and this same group hatched only 2,459,000 salable chicks this year, whereas a year ago they hatched 4,869,000 chicks, a decrease of 49.5 per cent. In addition 622 hatcheries reported that on February 1, 1930, they had orders for 23,788,000 chicks to be delivered either in February or la ter; this year, on the same date, they had orders for only 13,813,000 chicks, a decrease of 41.9 per cent. In the South Atlantic states 63 hatcheries reported a decrease of 31 per cent of salable chicks hat ched during January, 1931, as com pared with the same month in- 1930. Forty-four hatcheries re ported a decrease of 51 per cent of chicks booked for February, 1931 as compared with that period in 1930. Home Canners Warned To Guard Against Botulism The recent case of food poison ing in North Dakota, in which 12 persons died from eating home- canned peas, has prompted the United States Department of Ag riculture to call attention again to a method of canning nonacid veg etables in the home to guard; against the deadly botulinus pois on. The bacteria that cause botulism are abundant in many soils. Some may be present in most soils, and consequently may be on the vege tables to be canned. When these bacteria germinate in a closed con tainer they form a deadly poison.. They will not grow in salt solu tions, however, if the per centage of salt is higher than 9 per cent and they will be killed at boiling temperature if the solution is suf ficiently acid. In the canning of nonacld vege tables—peas, asparagus, beans* corn, beets, and spinach—the only safe course is to destroy all bac teria that may be present by can ning under steam pressure, accord ing to the Bureau of Home Eco nomics. In the case of acid vege tables and fruits, such as toma toes, apples, peaches, and goose berries, the bacteria are killed at boiling temperature (212 degrees Fahrenheit); but with nonacid vegetables there is no assurance that the botulinug organisms will be killed by processing in boiling water unless the material is heated for six hours or longer. Obviously, a 6-hour treatment of peas or sim ilar vegetables would result in a /cry unattractive product. A much shorter heating time is required at x temperature of 240 degrees Fah renheit such as may be obtained in a pressure cooker. Pressure cookers are now stand ard equipment and are readily available at small cost. The de partment does not recommend any particular make, although it em phasizes the importance of having the pressure kettle equipped with’ a thermometer and pressure guage for proper control. There is now- no excuse, the department says, for continuing to take risks in volved in canning nonacid foods* without adequate pressure cooking or curing or acidification. Ordinary types of spoilage may- usually be detected by the odor or appearance of the can or its con- :ents, but the botulinus toxin may ic present without any signs of poilage. If present in small quan- ities this toxin is destroyed by ^oiling, according to the Bureau Home Economics, therefore it ecommends that all home-canned ’egetables and meats when opened or consumption be boiled for at east 10 minutsa; before, they ai:e wasted. j